Hurricanes
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Grammar
Grammar
100

What part do heat and water play in a hurricane’s life?

What is heat gives it energy?

100

A sudden powerful movement upward and forward.

What is surge?

100

The base pieces houses and buildings are built upon.

What is foundations?

100

A __________ sentence is formed by joining two groups of words with a subordinating conjunction.

What is a complex sentence?

100

Fill in the blank. Correlative conjunctions _____________ two words, phrases, or clauses that are parallel, or have the same function in the sentence.

What is connect?

200

When does a tropical storm become a hurricane?

What is when the wind speed of the storm gets to 74 miles per hour?

200

Something that will happen at some point, usually after other event.

What is eventually?

200

A group of things that are similar to each other in some way.

What is a category?

200

The two parts of a complex sentence are called the ________________ clause and the dependent clause.

What is an independent clause?

200

Find correlative conjunction in the sentence. Neither the crew nor the rescuers knew what to do.

What is neither/nor?

300

How does the author support the idea that hurricanes are destructive?

What is by explaining what happened when past hurricanes reached land?

300

What is another word for areas?

What is regions?

300

When you watch and see where it moves and how it changes.

What is track?

300

What is the independent clause in the sentence? Cara made a list of the things she needed before she went to the store.

What is Cara made a list of things she needed?

300

Choose the correlative conjunction. 

both/and

but

bad/worse

What is both/and?

400

What is the difference between hurricanes and tornadoes?

What is hurricanes form over the ocean, but most tornadoes form over land?

400

Something you are able to move or move easily.

What is mobile?

400

These words mean the opposite of each other.

What is an anotnym?

400

What is the dependent clause in the sentence? Although his faucets were working, George bought bottles of water.

What is although his faucets were working?

400

This type of clause cannot stand alone.

What is dependent clause?

500

What is the center of a hurricane called?

What is the eye of the storm?

500

Something is firmly attached to something else, or weighed down so it won't move easily.

What is anchored?

500

These words mean the same as one another.

What are synonyms?

500

Identify the subordinating conjunction in the sentence. Anna looked for a lifeguard before she decided to go swimming.

What is before?

500

A conjunction is a that connects. Give and example of a conjunction.

Answers will vary. 

What is and, but, or, before, because, since, although?